TARDIS-SN
TARDIS is an open-source Monte Carlo radiative-transfer spectral synthesis code for 1D models of supernova ejecta. TARDIS is being used in modeling the observations of exploding stars and other astrophysical transients. These include but are not limited to exploding white dwarf stars, massive stars undergoing a core-collapse, and coalescing neutron stars.
It is developed and maintained by a multi-disciplinary team including software engineers, computer scientists, statisticians, and astrophysicists. TARDIS uses standard open-source community software development workflow relying on GitHub for development, testing, and continuous integration.
I joined the TARDIS collaboration in March 2019 to work on its atomic database Carsus. For the Carsus project I mentored Google Summer of Code students both in 2019 and 2020. I became head of the TARDIS code comparison team during the Second Radiative Transfer Code Comparison Workshop taking place in Garching/Germany in August 2019. In August 2020, I joined the TARDIS-core developer team, taking over the project’s GitHub representation with duties focusing on keeping track of Pull Requests and Issues. Finally, in August 2020, TARDIS-SN was accepted as a fiscally sponsored project by NumFocus.
Andreas Flörs
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
My research interests include supernova observations and simulations, and how we can combine the two fields.